Buy Remote Control (Nick Stone 01) Book Online at Low Prices in India | Remote Control (Nick Stone 01) Reviews & Ratings - Amazon.in 5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book 25 July 2013 By Walter E. Kurtz - Published on Amazon.com Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase This is the story of Nick Stone (Why do the main characters always have cool names?) who is an ex-British commando and who currently works for the British government as a spy and field operative. Nick is sent to Washington to spy on two Irish terrorists (freedom fighters?) but a call from London tells him to cancel the mission and return home. Unexpectedly having found himself with time to kill, he decides to visit an old friend, also an ex-SAS and currently working for the DEA. When he comes to his friend's house, he finds his friend and the whole family murdered. The only survivor is his friend's seven-years-old daughter Kelly. Nick takes the girl from the house and soon finds himself hunted by mysterious government agents while his own government turns its back on him. To survive and to protect Kelly, he must investigate the mystery of his friend's murder.

Along the way he and Kelly do some breaking and entering, fight Irish terrorists, get into a shootout with dirty cops on a highway, meet friendly strippers, get help from a Mafia mobster who likes to do Al Pacino impressions, get help from an ex-SAS soldier (How come there are so many of them living in Washington?) and meet the cast of Clueless, whom they rob at gunpoint. I know that what I just described sounds like an action movie mixed with comedy, but the book is neither and all the events and characters make perfect sense within the context of the story. In fact, the book is quite realistic. Unlike your typical action movie, I could picture all the events of Remote Control happening in real life. There are two parallel stories running through the book. The first one is the story of Nick's investigation into his friend's death. As he does so, he uncovers a conspiracy involving dirty cops, Irish terrorists and corrupt government officials. I will not say what the conspiracy is about because that would be a spoiler. Suffice to say that it is down to earth and realistic and not some James Bond type of crazy plot. There is little mystery to it, however.

At the beginning of the book there was a hint dropped that the conspiracy is not only American but also reaches into England. I right away made a guess who is involved and by the end of the book my suspicions proved correct. But to avoid spoilers, I will say no more. The second story is the relationship between Kelly and Nick. At first she is a burden that he takes with him only to protect his own skin. But then we read how he starts to grow attached to her and transforms into her adoptive father. The idea of partnering a male loner with a kid is nothing new. I've seen a dozen movies with that plot and most of them limited the interaction between the adult and the child to a few clichés and comedy moments. Most of the time the child is partnered with the loner so that funny things happen and the audience can laugh. Not so with this book. There are some clichés and funny moments, yes, but overall the relationship between Nick and Kelly is kept very serious and realistic and I did enjoy reading these parts very much. But I think that the book's main selling point is the author's knowledge of the subject matter. The author, Andy McNab, was himself an ex-SAS member and secret government operative.

He fought in the First Gulf War and other places. The depth of knowledge about combat and spycraft given in this book is unparalleled. If anything, people who are interested in how commandoes and spies operate should read this book for nothing else but the amazing richness of information it contains. 4.0 out of 5 stars A good solid mainstream thriller. 20 July 2014 By Marc Watson - Published on Amazon.com Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase Overall a good read. The pacing at times is a little inconsistent with some stop start sections here and there which tends to break the flow of the main story line but it is not a major distraction to the story itself. Aside from the actions sequences which I found realistic with a minimum of the bullet bouncing 6'3" Superman syndrome ie Jack Reacher and Co. (N.B. - OMG Tom Cruise... Really, what were they thinking!!). I found the character development of the main character and his small charge to be the main drawcard, with the inevitable but welcome rapport that these two develop over time.

If you get a little squeamish with violence or crime scene descriptions this may not be the one for you but thankfully they are brief and intermittent and mostly confined to the first third of the book. If you have the time over the weekend pick this one up slip your mind into neutral and enjoy the downhill run. 5.0 out of 5 stars McNab's earliest fiction is gripping 30 July 2009 By Omar Siddique - Published on Amazon.com Format: Mass Market Paperback Verified Purchase From the start of the story, it's obvious McNab is not your typical thriller writer. There's an edge, a brusque matter-of-factness that reflects the the author's military service (much of it with British SAS). The attention to operational detail lends a sense of reality that is rare in other genre writing, yet somehow we don't get bogged down in the minutiae. And the action is brutal and visceral, no movie-style stylized fist-fights, instead there are vicious no-holds-barred fights (realistically, what happens when someone is fighting to stay alive) that frequently leave our hero worse for wear.

Even more unusual for this genre, a child features prominently in the plot, and McNab accurately captures the sense of a non-parent adult trying to cope with a young child, except for one plot twist towards the end where the kid is unrealistically competent (you'll know it when you get there). If you have discovered McNab via his gripping true story in Bravo Two-zero, his writing has the same quality in fiction. Well worth the read, and you'll probably end up with a bunch of later McNab books on your wishlist, like I did. Crisis Four: (Nick Stone Thriller 2): Amazon.it: Andy McNab: Libri in altre lingue 5.0 su 5 stelle Almost as good as the previous one 19 maggio 2014 Di Walter E. Kurtz - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato This is a second book in the Nick Stone series. Although reading the first book is not necessary to fully understand Crisis Four, it is useful. Besides, the previous book is quite good. I would even say that it is better than this one. The review that follows assumes that the reader had read Remote Control.

Some spoilers might follow. Crisis Four starts in 1995 with Nick Stone taking part in a covert operation in Syria where he is assaulting a terrorist compound run by Osama bin Laden. Here we meet Sarah, who is sent along with Nick. Although the mission is a success, Sarah acts strangely and it becomes obvious to Nick that something fishy is going on. Jump to 1998 and we meet Nick on an outing with Kelly. She lives now in a boarding school in England, but Nick has legal custody over her. Back when I was reading Remote Control, I did wonder how they were going to keep Kelly in the books. With her parents dead, I was expecting Kelly to be sent to live with her relatives. Well, apparently Kelly’s father left a clause in his will granting parental rights to Nick. What about Kelly’s mother? Didn’t she have any relatives who could contest this decision? In any case, while it is somewhat farfetched, I love Kelly as a character and I want her to stick around, so I am willing to accept it. So Nick is out with Kelly when he gets a call to report for assignment.

It appears that Sarah, who has been working in Washington for the past few years, went AWOL. Nick is tasked with finding her. It is at this point that we learn that the two have met in the 1980s in Afghanistan and had an affair. Nick fell in love with her, but she was sleeping with him only to use him for her own ends. So Nick goes to US to find Sarah. He locates her rather quickly. She is living in a house in the woods with five Middle Eastern men. Nick reports her location and gets the order to kill her. He sneaks inside the house at night, but things get chaotic and he ends up fighting the men and kidnapping Sarah. As the two of them are running through the woods trying to slip past police pursuit, Sarah confides in him about an assassination plot to kill Benjamin Netanyahu and Yassir Arafat (Both are visiting Washington at that time for a peace meeting.) and about a conspiracy at the highest level of the international intelligence community. The two of them must now not only escape from police, but race in time to Washington to stop the assassination. Except, can Sarah be trusted? She is cold, ruthless, intelligent and manipulative.

What if she is playing Nick like she did in Afghanistan? And what of his order to kill her? Read the book and you will find out. I will start with what I like about this book. The first one, just as in Remote Control, is a detailed wealth of information about covert ops techniques. The author, in case someone does not know, is the legendary Andy McNab, who himself was a SAS soldier and black ops operative. So he knows what he is talking about. The second thing I like is Nick’s humanity. In Crisis Four we get a good look at what is going on inside his head. In the previous book he was a hunted man protecting a child; he didn’t have a lot of time for second guessing himself and introspection. Here, although the action flows fast, Nick has more time for private thoughts. He is also working with a woman whom he hates but (deep inside) still loves. He is ordered to kill her, but at the same time he wants to protect her. But can he trust her? That causes a lot of turmoil inside him. Nor is he a superman. He himself acknowledges that he often fails.

And indeed a lot of what happens in the book happens precisely because he makes a mistake or suffers from bad luck. What makes him such a great operative is that he improvises in order to get himself out of trouble. There are some things I don’t like, however. The author sometimes makes references to British pop culture, and these are mostly lost on non-Brits. There are also some funny scenes and lines of dialogue that appear forced. They are funny, yes, but I get the impression that the author had out them there just to create humor. A little bit of humor is good once in a while, but this is supposed to be a serious action-spy thriller. (Or is it? Perhaps my interpretation of what this book should be is wrong?) Oh. And almost everybody we meet in the book is some sort of weirdo, eccentric or quirky. Are there any normal people left? (Then again, what is normal anyway?) These are minor points, however. My biggest complaint is with the whole assassination plot. Personally, I don’t like stories where the stakes are so high. The previous book was about a bunch of corrupt cops murdering witnesses to cover their crimes. The plot was believable and down to earth.

It might have gone in any number of directions. Here I know right from the beginning that Netanyahu and Arafat will not die because these two were still alive and well at the time when this book was being written. The author was not going to write a story set in a parallel universe where Netanyahu and Arafat die in 1998 assassinated in the White House. So the question was never whether or not the plot was going to succeed, but how it was going to fail. In my opinion that seriously limits the direction in which the story can be taken. Overall I preferred the previous book because Kelly and Nick were spending more time together, but Crisis Four is also very good. I give it four and a half stars. 4.0 su 5 stelle Andy McNab's Crisis Four 29 ottobre 2006 Di Gordon T. Iversen - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Copertina flessibile Acquisto verificato If you are ex-military, as I am, you'll recognize Andy McNab at once, as the real thing.

Each of McNab's "Nick Stone stories," is like taking a how-to course in performing the tasks of a special intelligence agent, as told my an old pro. In Crisis Four Nick must find missing Agent Sarah Greenwood, who might just have become a liability and embarrassment. Why Nick? Well because he and Sarah had work together before and had somewhere long the way become intimate so, Nick might be able to get into her head. Nick is also not a regular agent, but a former SAS Soldier, hired as a contractor, who can be used to perform work the Agency desperately needs to be done, but must deny any complicity. Andy McNab takes the reader along with Nick, carefully explaining step by step how a professional works, and more than that, the kind of determination that it takes to be one. This is a high-tension thriller that will have you not only sweating and shivering with Nick, but satisfied that you've glimpsed his esoteric craft. 5.0 su 5 stelle Andy hits the mark again 29 giugno 2014 Di brenda lucas - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato Another great adventure from McNab.

He has grasped what is required in a book to ensure the reader is kept enthralled right from the start. Once again he grabs the reader and never allows them to rest as the tension builds. The storyline is not overcomplicated and McNabs insight and experience of the subject matter is excellent. The way he explains the industry practices, protocols and methods is clear, concise, very interesting and second to none. Well done again Andy. 2.0 su 5 stelle Crisis Four 17 luglio 2016 Di Joyce Harrison - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato Did not enjoy this book at all, too much unnecessary detailed descriptions. Also, a one-dimensional character. And I purchased this book, yuck! Remote Control: Amazon.it: Andy McNab, Jack Davenport: Libri in altre lingue Libri in altre lingue Passa al retro Passa al fronte Ascolta Riproduzione in corso... In pausa Stai ascoltando un campione dell'edizione audio udibile.

Remote Control (Inglese) Audio Cassetta – Ridotto, Audiolibro di Chi ha acquistato questo articolo ha acquistato anche Pagina 1 di 1 Pagina iniziale Pagina 1 di 1 Questa funzione di acquisto consentirÃ di continuare a caricare gli articoli. Per accedere agli articoli non presenti su questo nastro trasportatore, utilizza il tasto di scelta rapida relativo alle intestazioni per accedere all'intestazione precedente o successiva. ‘Proceeds with a testosterone surge’ Daily Telegraph Dalla quarta di copertina Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of a fellow SAS soldier and his family in Washington, DC. Only a seven-year-old daughter, Kelly, has survived – and the two of them are immediately on the run from unidentified pursuers. Stone doesn’t even know which of them is the target. On his own, Stone stands a chance of escape.

But he needs to protect the girl and together they plunge into a dark world of violence and corruption in which friend cannot be told from foe. As events draw to their blazing and unexpected climax, Stone discovers the shocking truth about governments, terrorism and commerce – and the greed that binds the three together… 'Remote Control' is a new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid and menacing, with a pace that never lets up. Other thriller writers talk the talk. Only McNab has the walk. Non Ã¨ necessario possedere un dispositivo Kindle. Scarica una delle app Kindle gratuite per iniziare a leggere i libri Kindle sul tuo smartphone, tablet e computer. Apple Per scaricare una app gratuita, inserisci il numero di cellulare. oppure Non hai un Kindle? Scopri Kindle , oppure scarica l'applicazione di lettura Kindle GRATUITA. Dettagli prodotto Editore: HarperCollins; Abridged edition edizione (15 novembre 1999) Lingua: Inglese Peso di spedizione: 118 g Media recensioni: › Visualizza le recensioni clienti...

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Consegne illimitate in 1 giorno Iscriviti ad Amazon Prime: consegne in 1 giorno senza costi aggiuntivi, accesso anticipato alle Offerte Lampo di Amazon.it e agli eventi di Amazon BuyVIP e spazio di archiviazione per le foto illimitato Di Cliente Amazon il 21 gennaio 2015 Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato The story proceeds at a good pace and the style of story telling is engrossing and pulls attention from one chapter to the next. Although pushing the boundaries of fantasy, the mix of real historical events and absurdly violent encounters strikes a good balance. Questa recensione ti Ã¨ stata utile? SÃ¬ No Invio feedback... Grazie del feedback. 5.0 su 5 stelle Amazing book 25 luglio 2013 Di Walter E. Kurtz - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato This is the story of Nick Stone (Why do the main characters always have cool names?) who is an ex-British commando and who currently works for the British government as a spy and field operative.

Nick is sent to Washington to spy on two Irish terrorists (freedom fighters?) but a call from London tells him to cancel the mission and return home. Unexpectedly having found himself with time to kill, he decides to visit an old friend, also an ex-SAS and currently working for the DEA. When he comes to his friend's house, he finds his friend and the whole family murdered. The only survivor is his friend's seven-years-old daughter Kelly. Nick takes the girl from the house and soon finds himself hunted by mysterious government agents while his own government turns its back on him. To survive and to protect Kelly, he must investigate the mystery of his friend's murder. Along the way he and Kelly do some breaking and entering, fight Irish terrorists, get into a shootout with dirty cops on a highway, meet friendly strippers, get help from a Mafia mobster who likes to do Al Pacino impressions, get help from an ex-SAS soldier (How come there are so many of them living in Washington?) and meet the cast of Clueless, whom they rob at gunpoint.

I know that what I just described sounds like an action movie mixed with comedy, but the book is neither and all the events and characters make perfect sense within the context of the story. In fact, the book is quite realistic. Unlike your typical action movie, I could picture all the events of Remote Control happening in real life. There are two parallel stories running through the book. The first one is the story of Nick's investigation into his friend's death. As he does so, he uncovers a conspiracy involving dirty cops, Irish terrorists and corrupt government officials. I will not say what the conspiracy is about because that would be a spoiler. Suffice to say that it is down to earth and realistic and not some James Bond type of crazy plot. There is little mystery to it, however. At the beginning of the book there was a hint dropped that the conspiracy is not only American but also reaches into England. I right away made a guess who is involved and by the end of the book my suspicions proved correct. But to avoid spoilers, I will say no more. The second story is the relationship between Kelly and Nick. At first she is a burden that he takes with him only to protect his own skin.

But then we read how he starts to grow attached to her and transforms into her adoptive father. The idea of partnering a male loner with a kid is nothing new. I've seen a dozen movies with that plot and most of them limited the interaction between the adult and the child to a few clichés and comedy moments. Most of the time the child is partnered with the loner so that funny things happen and the audience can laugh. Not so with this book. There are some clichés and funny moments, yes, but overall the relationship between Nick and Kelly is kept very serious and realistic and I did enjoy reading these parts very much. But I think that the book's main selling point is the author's knowledge of the subject matter. The author, Andy McNab, was himself an ex-SAS member and secret government operative. He fought in the First Gulf War and other places. The depth of knowledge about combat and spycraft given in this book is unparalleled. If anything, people who are interested in how commandoes and spies operate should read this book for nothing else but the amazing richness of information it contains. 4.0 su 5 stelle A good solid mainstream thriller.

20 luglio 2014 Di Marc Watson - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato Overall a good read. The pacing at times is a little inconsistent with some stop start sections here and there which tends to break the flow of the main story line but it is not a major distraction to the story itself. Aside from the actions sequences which I found realistic with a minimum of the bullet bouncing 6'3" Superman syndrome ie Jack Reacher and Co. (N.B. - OMG Tom Cruise... Really, what were they thinking!!). I found the character development of the main character and his small charge to be the main drawcard, with the inevitable but welcome rapport that these two develop over time. If you get a little squeamish with violence or crime scene descriptions this may not be the one for you but thankfully they are brief and intermittent and mostly confined to the first third of the book. If you have the time over the weekend pick this one up slip your mind into neutral and enjoy the downhill run.

5.0 su 5 stelle McNab's earliest fiction is gripping 30 luglio 2009 Di Omar Siddique - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Copertina flessibile Acquisto verificato From the start of the story, it's obvious McNab is not your typical thriller writer. There's an edge, a brusque matter-of-factness that reflects the the author's military service (much of it with British SAS). The attention to operational detail lends a sense of reality that is rare in other genre writing, yet somehow we don't get bogged down in the minutiae. And the action is brutal and visceral, no movie-style stylized fist-fights, instead there are vicious no-holds-barred fights (realistically, what happens when someone is fighting to stay alive) that frequently leave our hero worse for wear. Even more unusual for this genre, a child features prominently in the plot, and McNab accurately captures the sense of a non-parent adult trying to cope with a young child, except for one plot twist towards the end where the kid is unrealistically competent (you'll know it when you get there).

If you have discovered McNab via his gripping true story in Bravo Two-zero, his writing has the same quality in fiction. Well worth the read, and you'll probably end up with a bunch of later McNab books on your wishlist, like I did. Crisis Four: Amazon.es: Andy McNab, Jack Davenport: Libros en idiomas extranjeros Libros en idiomas extranjeros AÃ±adir a la Lista de deseos Â¿Tienes uno para vender? Volver atrÃ¡s Ir adelante Escuchar Reproduciendo... Interrumpido EstÃ¡s escuchando una muestra de la ediciÃ³n de audio Audible. Crisis Four (InglÃ©s) Casete de audio – Abreviado, Audiolibro de Casete de audio, Abreviado, Audiolibro — DescripciÃ³n del producto Críticas Praise for Remote Control: ‘The best suspense thriller writer to put pen to paper since Alistair Maclean. Remote Control is superb!’ Stephen Coonts Reseña del editor Crisis Four hurtles us into the heartstopping world of violence, betrayal and high-octane suspense.

Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a ‘K’ working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, is tough, resourceful, ruthless, and highly trained – a master of his trade. Sarah is beautiful – steel-willed, intelligent, cunning – the only woman Stone has ever let under his guard. And now he’s been sent to hunt her down… As the pair are pursued through the backwoods of the American South, Stone’s mission becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy – to which only Sarah holds the key. And as the tension builds to breaking point, the two are led to a confrontation that echoes our worst nightmares. In Crisis Four the master storyteller hurtles us once more into his heartstopping world of violence, betrayal and high-octane suspense. Here indeed is a new kind of thriller, so gritty, vivid and menacing that it’s hard to tell where fact ends and fiction begins. No es necesario ningÃºn dispositivo Kindle. DescÃ¡rgate una de las apps de Kindle gratuitas para comenzar a leer libros Kindle en tu smartphone, tablet u ordenador. Apple ObtÃ©n la app gratuita: o Â¿No tienes un Kindle?

Consigue un Kindle aquÃ­ o descarga una aplicaciÃ³n de lectura Kindle GRATUITA. Detalles del producto Editor: HarperCollins; EdiciÃ³n: Abridged edition (15 de noviembre de 1999) Idioma: InglÃ©s Â¿Quieres actualizar la informaciÃ³n sobre un producto o dar tu opiniÃ³n sobre las imÃ¡genes ? Amazon Premium: EnvÃ­o 1 dÃ­a GRATIS y mucho mÃ¡s Los clientes Premium disfrutan de EnvÃ­o 1 dÃ­a GRATIS en mÃ¡s de un millÃ³n de productos, Acceso Prioritario a Amazon BuyVIP y Ofertas flash, Almacenamiento de fotos gratis e ilimitado y acceso a las series Amazon Originals, entre otras pelÃ­culas y series. TodavÃ­a no hay opiniones de clientes en Amazon.es 5 estrellas 5.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas Almost as good as the previous one 19 de mayo de 2014 Por Walter E.

Kurtz - Publicado en Amazon.com Formato: VersiÃ³n Kindle Compra verificada This is a second book in the Nick Stone series. Although reading the first book is not necessary to fully understand Crisis Four, it is useful. Besides, the previous book is quite good. I would even say that it is better than this one. The review that follows assumes that the reader had read Remote Control. Some spoilers might follow. Crisis Four starts in 1995 with Nick Stone taking part in a covert operation in Syria where he is assaulting a terrorist compound run by Osama bin Laden. Here we meet Sarah, who is sent along with Nick. Although the mission is a success, Sarah acts strangely and it becomes obvious to Nick that something fishy is going on. Jump to 1998 and we meet Nick on an outing with Kelly. She lives now in a boarding school in England, but Nick has legal custody over her. Back when I was reading Remote Control, I did wonder how they were going to keep Kelly in the books. With her parents dead, I was expecting Kelly to be sent to live with her relatives. Well, apparently Kelly’s father left a clause in his will granting parental rights to Nick.

What about Kelly’s mother? Didn’t she have any relatives who could contest this decision? In any case, while it is somewhat farfetched, I love Kelly as a character and I want her to stick around, so I am willing to accept it. So Nick is out with Kelly when he gets a call to report for assignment. It appears that Sarah, who has been working in Washington for the past few years, went AWOL. Nick is tasked with finding her. It is at this point that we learn that the two have met in the 1980s in Afghanistan and had an affair. Nick fell in love with her, but she was sleeping with him only to use him for her own ends. So Nick goes to US to find Sarah. He locates her rather quickly. She is living in a house in the woods with five Middle Eastern men. Nick reports her location and gets the order to kill her. He sneaks inside the house at night, but things get chaotic and he ends up fighting the men and kidnapping Sarah.

As the two of them are running through the woods trying to slip past police pursuit, Sarah confides in him about an assassination plot to kill Benjamin Netanyahu and Yassir Arafat (Both are visiting Washington at that time for a peace meeting.) and about a conspiracy at the highest level of the international intelligence community. The two of them must now not only escape from police, but race in time to Washington to stop the assassination. Except, can Sarah be trusted? She is cold, ruthless, intelligent and manipulative. What if she is playing Nick like she did in Afghanistan? And what of his order to kill her? Read the book and you will find out. I will start with what I like about this book. The first one, just as in Remote Control, is a detailed wealth of information about covert ops techniques. The author, in case someone does not know, is the legendary Andy McNab, who himself was a SAS soldier and black ops operative. So he knows what he is talking about. The second thing I like is Nick’s humanity. In Crisis Four we get a good look at what is going on inside his head.

In the previous book he was a hunted man protecting a child; he didn’t have a lot of time for second guessing himself and introspection. Here, although the action flows fast, Nick has more time for private thoughts. He is also working with a woman whom he hates but (deep inside) still loves. He is ordered to kill her, but at the same time he wants to protect her. But can he trust her? That causes a lot of turmoil inside him. Nor is he a superman. He himself acknowledges that he often fails. And indeed a lot of what happens in the book happens precisely because he makes a mistake or suffers from bad luck. What makes him such a great operative is that he improvises in order to get himself out of trouble. There are some things I don’t like, however. The author sometimes makes references to British pop culture, and these are mostly lost on non-Brits. There are also some funny scenes and lines of dialogue that appear forced. They are funny, yes, but I get the impression that the author had out them there just to create humor. A little bit of humor is good once in a while, but this is supposed to be a serious action-spy thriller. (Or is it?

Perhaps my interpretation of what this book should be is wrong?) Oh. And almost everybody we meet in the book is some sort of weirdo, eccentric or quirky. Are there any normal people left? (Then again, what is normal anyway?) These are minor points, however. My biggest complaint is with the whole assassination plot. Personally, I don’t like stories where the stakes are so high. The previous book was about a bunch of corrupt cops murdering witnesses to cover their crimes. The plot was believable and down to earth. It might have gone in any number of directions. Here I know right from the beginning that Netanyahu and Arafat will not die because these two were still alive and well at the time when this book was being written. The author was not going to write a story set in a parallel universe where Netanyahu and Arafat die in 1998 assassinated in the White House. So the question was never whether or not the plot was going to succeed, but how it was going to fail. In my opinion that seriously limits the direction in which the story can be taken. Overall I preferred the previous book because Kelly and Nick were spending more time together, but Crisis Four is also very good. I give it four and a half stars.

4.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas Andy McNab's Crisis Four 29 de octubre de 2006 Por Gordon T. Iversen - Publicado en Amazon.com Formato: Libro de bolsillo Compra verificada If you are ex-military, as I am, you'll recognize Andy McNab at once, as the real thing. Each of McNab's "Nick Stone stories," is like taking a how-to course in performing the tasks of a special intelligence agent, as told my an old pro. In Crisis Four Nick must find missing Agent Sarah Greenwood, who might just have become a liability and embarrassment. Why Nick? Well because he and Sarah had work together before and had somewhere long the way become intimate so, Nick might be able to get into her head. Nick is also not a regular agent, but a former SAS Soldier, hired as a contractor, who can be used to perform work the Agency desperately needs to be done, but must deny any complicity. Andy McNab takes the reader along with Nick, carefully explaining step by step how a professional works, and more than that, the kind of determination that it takes to be one.

This is a high-tension thriller that will have you not only sweating and shivering with Nick, but satisfied that you've glimpsed his esoteric craft. 5.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas Andy hits the mark again 29 de junio de 2014 Por brenda lucas - Publicado en Amazon.com Formato: VersiÃ³n Kindle Compra verificada Another great adventure from McNab. He has grasped what is required in a book to ensure the reader is kept enthralled right from the start. Once again he grabs the reader and never allows them to rest as the tension builds. The storyline is not overcomplicated and McNabs insight and experience of the subject matter is excellent. The way he explains the industry practices, protocols and methods is clear, concise, very interesting and second to none. Well done again Andy. 2.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas Crisis Four 17 de julio de 2016 Por Joyce Harrison - Publicado en Amazon.com Formato: VersiÃ³n Kindle Compra verificada Did not enjoy this book at all, too much unnecessary detailed descriptions. Also, a one-dimensional character.

And I purchased this book, yuck! Nick Stone - Book Series In Order Chronological Order of Nick Stone Books The Nick Stone books chronological order is currently the same as the publication order. Nick Stone Biography: Nick Stone is a popular character in about fourteen fictional books authored by Andy McNab. This fictional character is known to have embarked on dangerous missions across many countries for the British SAS, and occasionally for the American CIA, in earlier novels in the series. Later books now depict Nick as a paid mercenary trying to evade capture from enemies around the world while also undertaking a series of intriguing missions. Nick Stone’s childhood was a lonely and unhappy one. As a child growing up in England, Nick had a difficult experience with his parents who he perceives to be uncaring and abusive. His father, particularly, was abusive towards young Nick and some passages in the earlier books in the series show examples of such abuses. His mother, although not directly portrayed as violent as his father and step-father, did nothing about the violent experiences Nick suffered from both men even though she was aware of the little boy’s predicament. Nick endured the trauma he faced at home until he left and join the army.

Through the army, he was recruited into the British SAS where he started what would later be a troublesome life and career. The name and childhood of the character are allegedly inspired by one of the author’s childhood friends. In one of the books, Nick revealed he got married but later divorced his wife. Some passages in subsequent books also revealed he developed a romantic interest in a fellow operative called Sarah. In fact, this was listed in his file at the SAS as the main reason for his failed marriage and eventual divorce. Now without a family of his own, Nick had to take in a seven year old girl, Kelly, who is the daughter of a fellow SAS soldier, after her father was murdered along with her family. He became the guardian of the little girl and protected her against those that killed her parents. Between 1987 and 1995, Nick retired from the British SAS after he publicly shot three PIRA officials during a mission gone awry in Gibraltar. In an attempt to foil a plot by the PIRA officials to detonate a bomb, Nick engaged them in a gun duel and subsequently killed them, sparking a controversy and a public outcry. This led to his early retirement from the British SAS and the beginning of career as a mercenary.

A passage in the book, ‘Aggressor’, reveals that the ‘Waco siege’ mission in 1993 was his last official job for the MI6. His former love interest and colleague, Sarah, convinced him to take on unofficial missions for the British security service later on. During the period after his official retirement, Nick became involved in a series of events which took him all over the world, from Asia to America and even the most remote parts of the globe. While many of those missions were taken under the order of ‘The Firm’, others were as a result of pure circumstance, pursuit of personal vendetta or a means to evade captors. The early career of Nick Stone as a British Intelligence operative saw him involved in various intriguing assassinations and espionage. In later novels, he becomes involved in more politics, government business and race issues without losing combat skills. Nick Stone Book Series As much as fourteen books have been written about the fictional character Nick Stone. The earliest of those book, Remote Control, was published in February 1998 and the latest, Dead Centre, was published more than a year ago. A new book, Silencer, is due to be out later in the year.

Other titles in the Nick Stone book series include Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day, Dark Winter, Deep Black, Aggressor, Recoil, Crossfire, Brute Force, Exit Wound and Zero Hour. Remote Control Remote Control is the first book in the series based on the Nick Stone character. This book documents the events after an infamous mission, and subsequent retirement of Nick Stone from the SAS, in Gibraltar. With his renowned vigor, ruthlessness and skill, Nick Stone is approached and employed by the British Intelligence service as a deniable operative assigned only to unfashionable missions. The plots centers on Nick and a seven-year-old girl whose parents were killed during a mission in Washington DC. Nick was on the tail of two terrorists when he discovered the girl’s father, an ex-SAS officer, has been killed by unknown assailants. With the girl being the only survivor of the ordeal, she is the only one who can identify the killers. Nick tries to protect the girl from her parents’ killers while also solving a mystery from a previously complicated SAS mission. Crisis Four Crisis Four is the second of the series. The book details the hunt for Sarah Greenwood, a former operative who has a romantic history with Nick Stone.

Sarah Greenwood is one of the very few people who has had a close relationship with Nick but he is now ordered to track her down. Now considered a rogue agent, the witty Sarah Greenwood cannot be trusted but Nick’s history with her is sure to complicate the situation. In what became a complex mesh of conspiracy theory, Nick tries to find an answer but only Sarah appears to have it. Other books in the series document various missions including one where he discovered a terrorist threat against New York and some major American cities. Many of his encounters often lead to a dilemma where he has to make quick but difficult decisions. Film Adaptation The rights to the Nick Stone series was initially bought by Miramax Films in 2001 and the second book of the series, Crisis Four, was scheduled for production until the project was eventually abandoned. Miramax Films passed on and sold the rights to another company but was later bought back again when the project stalled. Producers from Miramax Films have already announced that the third book in the series, Firewall, will be adapted into screenplay.

The author of the series, Andy McNab, will be involved in writing the script for the movie while popular hollywood actor, Jason Statham, originally assigned the role of Nick Stone, has bowed out of the project due to conflicting schedules.

Question: Who introduced the character of ex-SAS soldier Nick Stone in his novel 'Remote Control'?
Answer: Andy McNab